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Undersklc iiniform purplish grey, with the markings showing darker, the cosfa 

 beyond tlie middle with jialcr patches. 



Head and anal half of abdomen brownish ochreons ; thorax and basal half of 

 abdomen blacki;;h ; legs broken olYj frontal tuft and palpi externally blackish 



Expanse of wings : 20 mm. 



1 c? from Sariba Island, British New Guinea (Meek). 



Subfamily ASTHENINAE. 

 411. Acolutha imbecilla spec. nov. 



Forewing : whitish, above the middle dusted with lilac-grey ; crossed by four 

 yellow bands which in the upper half are slightly fiilvous-tingcd : one close to 

 base, obscure ; the second, antemedian, slightly curved ; the postmcdian and sub- 

 marginal outcnrved above ; all these bauds are preceded by an obscure fine line, 

 fo as to ajipear double; the hiudmargin and inner margin near anal angle are 

 somewhat dusted with lilac scales ; cell-spot black ; fringe yellowish white. 



IIi)i(liruif/ : with three yellow bands slightly mixed with lilac scales. 



Underside whitisli ; the costal half of forewing lilac-bi-own. 



Face, vertex-, and shoulders white mixed with lilac scales ; thorax and abdomen 

 more purely white ; antennae annnlated lilac and white. 



Expanse of wings : 16 mm. 



2 S6 from Mt. Wuchi, Hainan, May 1003. 



This and the next species semifulca are dwarf representatives of the two Indian 

 species pictaria Moore and pulchella Hmpsn. 



41. Acolutha semifulva si)cc. nov. 



Fornring: bright orange fulvous above median vein and vein 4, yellowish 

 white with a greenish tinge below, becoming white along hindmargiu ; a snb- 

 margiual jiartially double dark (ilive-fuscous line, forming a blotch on submedian 

 fold, more or less obsolete above middle, ending on tlie costa in two pale outwardly 

 oblique streaks, to which the two arms are retracted ; no distinct traces of other 

 cross lines ; some olive-green scales beyond middle on the submedian fold; cell-spot 

 small, black ; fringe fulvous above, pale below middle. 



Iliiidicing: cream-colour, grey-speckled, crossed by four cloudy and irregular 

 bands, the antemedian and median pale olive-green accomi)anied by yellow scaling, 

 the two outer more curved, olive-fuscous accompanied by violet-grey scales ; cell- 

 spot black ; the two middle bands are indistinctly double ; some dark scales along 

 hiudmargin towards anal angle. 



Underside of forewing like upper but duller, the dark submarginal band 

 preceded by a curved pale band ; outer half of hindwing, oxcei)t extreme hind- 

 margin, occupied by a large olive-fuscous blotch. 



Head, antennae, and forelegs bright fulvous ; thorax bright white ; abdomen 

 whitish with slight grey bands. 



Expanse of wings : 17 mm. 



1 3 IVom Mt. Wuchi, Hainan, May 1903. 



42. Pseudasthena grataria ab. marginata nov. and ab. perflava nov. 



Of three males of this species from Sariba Island, British New Guinea, sent by 

 A. S. M ek, one is typical, the other two aberrant : in nvirginnta the red is intensified 



